A federal magistrate judge ruled in favor of the Justice Department in a dispute over a subpoena issued to a New York Times freelance reporter who wrote about a topic involving North Korea and SEAL Team 6. The ruling supports the government's effort to compel testimony or documents from the freelancer, Matthew Cole.
Latino Democratic leaders are calling on the Democratic Governors Association to invest more heavily in Texas after a New York Times/Siena College poll showed Democratic nominee Gina Hinojosa narrowly leading Republican Gov. Greg Abbott in the 2026 governor's race. The push comes amid broader concerns that Democrats are underfunding winnable gubernatorial contests.
The DOJ filed a judicial misconduct complaint against seven federal judges in Minnesota who spoke to the New York Times about the immigration enforcement surge in their state. Attorney General Todd Blanche alleged the judges made unethical political statements on pending cases, while one judge defended the interviews as within ethical rules.
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang told The New York Times that frontier AI labs conducting unsafe experiments should be shut down and face civil and criminal liability, while dismissing broader AI existential risk warnings from OpenAI and Anthropic leaders as a 'distraction' not grounded in science.
South Korean President Lee Jae Myung has called on the United States to ease sanctions on North Korea in exchange for Pyongyang freezing its nuclear weapons programs, breaking from precedent by publicly advocating for sanctions relief over full denuclearization. Lee told The New York Times he sees "significant value" in such a trade-off under current circumstances.
Raúl Rodríguez Castro, known as "El Cangrejo" and a key figure in Cuba-U.S. negotiations, has been accused of supporting a human trafficking network linked to Cuban organized crime in Quintana Roo, Mexico, according to testimony from a detained gang member reported by The New York Times.
